Posted on 01/17/2018 6:18:35 PM PST by Helicondelta
"2017 was a year of unrelenting bias, unfair news coverage, and even downright fake news. Studies have shown that over 90 percent of the media’s coverage of President Trump is negative," according to the announcement.
The awards, hosted on the GOP's national website, were unavailable immediately following Trump's tweet announcing them, likely from a traffic overload.
"The New York Times’ Paul Krugman claimed on the day of President Trump’s historic, landslide victory that the economy would never recover," according to the GOP-hosted website. Krugman's No. 1 listing is contrasted with a headline that shows the Dow hitting a record high.
No. 2 on the list says "ABC News' Brian Ross CHOKES and sends markets in a downward spiral with false report." ABC News was required to correct a report in December when Ross incorrectly reported that Trump directed a campaign aide to make contact with Russians during the campaign. The network later corrected the report to say it was during the transition, after Trump had already been elected. Ross was suspended for the error.
No. 3 blasts CNN for "FALSELY" reporting that candidate Donald Trump and his son Donald J. Trump, Jr. had access to hacked documents from WikiLeaks. CNN also corrected that report in December.
No. 4: "TIME FALSELY reported that President Trump removed a bust of Martin Luther King, Jr. from the Oval Office." That incident was a January tweet by a Time Magazine reporter. The reporter sent out more than a dozen tweets correcting the mistake and apologizing immediately following the first tweet that reported a bust had been removed.
No. 5 blames the Washington Post for reporting that "the President’s massive sold-out rally in Pensacola, Florida was empty. Dishonest reporter showed picture of empty arena HOURS before crowd started pouring in."
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
Looks like CNN is the winner, coming away with four “Fakies”, with NYT the runner-up with two “Fakies”.
Anybody come up with a Fakie statue yet? Maybe a little statue of Alfred E. Newman that has a plaque at the bottom that says “What, me worry?”
President Trump’s 2017 Fake News Awards!: The site below will take about a minute to appear due to high demand.
Enough incidents to fill a book.
Krugman gets his long overdue recognition as an always wrong hack.
NPR should be up there on the list.
I voted for CNN to get the TOP Fake News Award for 2017 news.
Oh boy, I just got an e-mail solicitation from the New York Times. They invited me to get a paid subscription in order to “support award-winning journalism”.
Yeah. They got a Fake News Award!!!!
LOL!!!!
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